Only slightly behind...

I feel like this title has been the theme in my life for this past year.  Since I last blogged, we have celebrated Christmas and a New Year and are already 16 days into this new year!  Crazy!  As expected, I went beck to Iowa for the holidays and have been back in Georgia for a week and a half.  Here are some of the highlights from the past month:

I made it back in time to go to Avery's preschool Christmas program.

Here Madelyn and I are waiting for the program to start.

 Here is Avery's class singing.  This is the 3 and 4 year old preschool class...they were so adorable!  

So glad I was able to be there.

Drew turned 1!  I know it seems like just yesterday he was born, but this little guy is now 1, or as Avery says, "He is a number now!"

The birthday boy!

 I am in my highchair...why is my tray empty?

 As Drew was opening his presents, Madelyn was very helpful in testing his toys to make sure they worked.

 Avery and I at Drew's birthday party.

Fast forward 2 days and it was Christmas day.  Parker was thrilled to wish everyone a Merry Christmas wearing his santa outfit.  Can't you see his excitement?

He did get a 2 foot rawhide for Christmas...so while he had to endure dress-up for an hour, he was rewarded!

While I was home my Mom and I were able to help out and babysit the kids a few days.  They were even nice enough to share their germs with me and give me a stomach virus on New Year's Eve, but I will spare you any more details.  Luckily they are so cute, that I can forgive them for their sharing!

  

Playing with play-doh at Grandma's house.

The girls playing with Parker.  While he enjoys the kids, he is always happy when they leave so he can go back to his normal nap schedule.

Parker likes to help Drew clean out anything that was dropped in the highchair.

While I was there, Beth and Paul were able to put together Avery's "up-down bed," as Avery calls it.  Avery was very excited to have her new bed and Madelyn liked it too.

In other exciting news, I traded in my car.  I no longer have my Rendezvous (lovingly called Ronnie).

 I snapped a quick picture as I said good buy and left him at the lot.

Unfortunately I haven't taken pictures of my new vehicle, but I got a 2007 Ford Edge and I am super happy with it.  The only picture I have of it is below...

...no this is not in Iowa.  Shortly after I got back to Georgia, we were hit by a huge snowstorm.  Athens got about 8 inches of snow and probably a half to full inch of ice on top of it.  We basically shut down for a few days.  This happened the night before classes were suppose to start back on Monday.  Because of the snow, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday were snow days, while Thursday and Friday both had delayed starts.  So far this semester, not one full day yet!  This will change as of Tuesday, but for now I am enjoying a gradual start to the semester.

During Christmas break and my 3 snow days I was able to work on and finish several fun sewing and craft projects...so look forward to those in a future post, soon!